THIS A.M.: WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES NEW SPECTRUM PLAN — Tony Romm reports: "The White House will announce on Friday a new push to survey how the government uses its own wireless airwaves — and whether those prized resources, long sought by AT&T, Verizon and other telecoms, might eventually be tapped for commercial use. The plan will task federal agencies — together, one of the country’s largest holders of the invisible spectrum that powers the wireless system — to report more complete data about how and where they’re using spectrum, share more of that information with the private sector, and justify any new spectrum requests." More here, for Pros: http://politico.pro/1bCPp13

— THE ANNOUNCEMENT HAPPENS LATER TODAY, in time for W .H. deputy CTO Tom Power's keynote at a Georgetown-hosted spectrum summit. (Details here: http://bit.ly/1bBwL9L — Power speaks at 9:30 a.m., per the sked). Also on tap, though, is FCC Wireless Bureau chief Ruth Milkman — expect her to outline three goals the agency has for next year’s incentive auction. Namely: Setting the U.S. up to be a global leader in new wireless tech; boosting the economy by alleviating the spectrum crunch; and properly funding the objectives of the 2012 spectrum act — including the FirstNet buildout. Watch, too, for a nod to the need to free up licensed and unlicensed spectrum and promote competition. She goes on at 1 p.m.

AMASH, CONYERS SOLIDIFY TEXT ON PATRIOT ACT REFORMS — House Judiciary ranking member John Conyers indicated Thursday that his bill with Rep. Justin Amash would be introduced today — though a lot of moving parts mean it’s not a sure thing it’ll go in the hopper today. Still, the pair has finalized the text and picked up at least two co-sponsors in Reps. Bobby Scott and Jerry Nadler. Among the changes the finished bill would make to the PATRIOT Act: Bringing the relevancy standard for obtaining business records in line with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act; Requiring that people ordered to produce records be notified they can challenge the order and how to do so (see this morning’s NYT story: http://nyti.ms/18EChw3); And improving transparency: Ensuring members of Congress have access to PATRIOT Act decisions, and the public has access to unclassified summaries. Read the bill here: http://bit.ly/11zou0s

GOOD FRIDAY MORNING and welcome to Morning Tech, where everybody’s working for the weekend. Let us know what your plans are — and tell us how psyched you are for next Tuesday’s Wheeler hearing — with a note to abyers@politico.com and @ byersalex. Catch the rest of the team’s contact info after speed read.

SOURCES: HOUSE COPYRIGHT EXAM WILL WAIT TILL 2014 ON DMCA — The House Judiciary Committee leadership’s bill to legalize cell phone locking makes a point of not messing with the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act itself. But that’s exactly what some in the tech set (and in the content industry) want to see happen. Committee staffers, though, are indicating that the DMCA won’t be the focus of the panel’s comprehensive copyright examination until next year, sources tell MT. Of course, that isn’t stopping stakeholders from putting down markers on what they’d like to do to the DMCA. The reform bill from Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Jared Polis, Anna Eshoo and Thomas Massie, for example, does just that. The committee, for its part, told MT that the next topics will be announced in the coming weeks.

— PLUS: PAI HEADLINES UNLOCKING EVENT MONDAY: The FCC commissioner continued the charge to legalize cell phone unlocking last week with an NYT op-ed, and he’ll keep it up next week when he delivers remarks at an event hosted by TechFreedom and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He’ll be followed by a panel digging into the DMCA, featuring Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow Jerry Brito, Public Knowledge’s Chris Lewis, CEI’s Ryan Radia, and Phoenix Center president Larry Spiwak. TechFreedom president Berin Szoka moderates. Details on Monday’s 12 p.m. event are here: http://bit.ly/11zqMg1

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WSJ: FOREIGN STAKES SHIELD TWO PHONE FIRMS FROM SWEEP — Danny Yadron and Evan Perez: “The National Security Agency's controversial data program, which seeks to stockpile records on all calls made in the U.S., doesn't collect information directly from T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, in part because of their foreign ownership ties, people familiar with the matter said. ... Officials believe they can still capture information, or metadata, on 99 percent of U.S. phone traffic because nearly all calls eventually travel over networks owned by U.S. companies that work with the NSA. ... Much of the U.S.'s telecom backbone is owned by two companies: AT&T and Verizon Business Network Services Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Verizon Communications that it views as a separate network from its mobile business. ... When a T-Mobile or Verizon Wireless call is made, it often must travel over one of these networks, requiring the carrier to pay the cable owner. The information related to that transaction — such as the phone numbers involved and length of call — is recorded and can then be passed to the NSA through its existing relationships.” http://on.wsj.com/12KaEzA

ISSA’S FITARA AMENDMENT ON TAP TODAY — The House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman’s bill to reform the federal IT landscape will come up as part of a bloc of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act today. As we’ve reported, though, the proposed text looks a bit different than the version that cleared the committee earlier this year — for example, it cut two paragraphs that promoted open-source software. That’s not exactly music to the ears of open government advocates — one, for example, told us that a government pivot to open source would be a cost-saver and potential job creator. But at the same time, the change reinforces the bill’s support for technology-neutral software procurement — the idea that the government should buy the best software for the best price, regardless of how it’s licensed. Today’s votes are expected between 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., according to the leader’s schedule.

CHAMBER’S IP ARM PICKS UP BONO MACK CHIEF OF STAFF — Frank Cullen has landed at the Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center as the new executive director for U.S. intellectual property policy. Cullen most recently served as chief of staff to former Rep. Mary Bono Mack, and worked with Rep. Sonny Bono and others before that. Cullen will take the lead on advancing IP protection and enforcement domestically — focusing on trademark counterfeiting and piracy in particular.

LEGISLATING THE FUTURE: SET-TOP BOX EDITION — It’s Friday, so MT brings you word of a new initiative from Reps. Mike Capuano and Walter Jones that would get out ahead of modern set-top boxes that could have the capability to watch or analyze viewers’ actions. The pair has introduced a bill that would require video providers to splash the words “WE ARE WATCHING YOU” across the TV screen anytime the viewer-recording technology is activated. It would also require prior consent from viewers before such hardware was installed in a user’s home. The move, the lawmakers say, is largely in response to a patent application from Verizon for technology that could serve targeted advertising based on a viewer’s activity. We’d note, though, that the Verizon application hasn’t been approved.

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